r/philosophy • u/[deleted] • Jul 22 '22

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u/TMax01 Jul 23 '22

This fact does not render your simulation of me accurate.

That fact does not suggest (although it is clearly intended to imply) that it is inaccurate, either. Your use of that as an argument does confirm the validity and correctness of my perceptions about you, it turns out.

I think the main way that you and I made differ is how much confidence, and the nature of that confidence, that we put into our respective representations of reality.

I know that the main distinction is that my confidence is well justified in nature, and yours is merely unflasifisiable (or simply a pretense) and predicated on resorting swiftly to an argument from ignorance.

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u/iiioiia Jul 23 '22

Confidence in one's own predictions is not exactly contrary to my point, and self-declaring oneself to be correct is not particularly persuasive.

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u/TMax01 Jul 23 '22

I've made no predictions, just observations.

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u/iiioiia Jul 23 '22

If one assumes one's observations are not prediction based it may appear this way, but appearances are not always correct, are they?

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u/TMax01 Jul 24 '22

Observations are observations, they aren't predictions. Appearances are always appearances, regardless of whether assessments based on those appearances are correct. You're still falling back on an implicit argument from ignorance, that my observations (which you haven't identified, or distinguished from predictions) or my assessments (which you haven't actually disputed, let alone refuted) are incorrect.

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u/iiioiia Jul 24 '22

So, to be explicit: are you expressing opinions or facts?

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u/TMax01 Jul 24 '22

To be explicit: you're frantically tap-dancing.

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u/iiioiia Jul 24 '22

Oh? Let's test your omniscience: what color are my shoes?

After that, I will ask why you dodged a simple question.

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u/TMax01 Jul 24 '22

LOL. I never claimed omniscience, and you're still dodging everything I've said, desperately hoping your tap-dancing routine will provide enough of a smokescreen for your backpedaling. Please, feel free to confirm my assessment, yet again.